Duran Duran's Rio, Limited Edition: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Classic Album

This limited printing, hardcover 40th anniversary edition of Rio includes an exclusive interview with lead singer Simon Le Bon, a Rio timeline, a newly designed book cover by Malcolm Garrette, vintage Duran Duran photos and ads, and more. The album, released in 1982, was a breakthrough for the Birmingham, England band, combining danceable disco, tangy funk, swaggering glam, and Roxy Music's art-rock. It was further buoyed by colorful music videos and a cutting-edge visual aesthetic, establishing the band as leaders of an MTV-driven second British Invasion.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 01 December 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This limited printing, hardcover 40th anniversary edition of Rio includes an exclusive new interview with lead singer Simon Le Bon, a Rio timeline, a newly designed book cover by Rio album sleeve designer Malcolm Garrette, vintage Duran Duran photos and ads, and much more. In the 80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's music and culture. No album represented this rip-it-up-and-start-again movement better than the act's breakthrough 1982 LP, Rio. A cohesive album with a retro-futuristic sound—influences include danceable disco, tangy funk, swaggering glam, and Roxy Music's art-rock—the full-length sold millions and spawned smashes such as Hungry Like the Wolf and the title track. However, Rio wasn't a success everywhere at first; in fact, the LP had to be buffed-up with remixes and reissued before it found an audience in America. The album was further buoyed by colorful music videos and a cutting-edge visual aesthetic, both of which established the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees as leaders of an MTV-driven second British Invasion. Via extensive new and exclusive interviews with band members and other figures who helped Rio succeed, this book explores how and why Rio became a landmark pop-rock album, and examines how the LP was both a musical inspiration and a reflection of a musical, cultural, and technology zeitgeist.

Weight: 444g
Dimension: 157 x 237 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9798765100233